Saturday, July 14, 2012

Persaud stands on naivety, says no one on FAMU board plotted against Ammons

The Tallahassee Democrat and Associated Press both
interviewed FAMU Faculty Senate President Narayan Persaud about what he knew
prior to the resignation of University President James H. Ammons. Persaud wants
FAMUans to accept his naïve belief that none of the 13 board members worked
together to plot against Ammons.

Back on Wednesday morning of July 11, On Wednesday, Rattler
Nation broke the news that certain members of the FAMU Board of Trustees were
working secretly to gather enough votes to oust Ammons during the
teleconference scheduled for that day.

The Tallahassee Democratreported that Persaud “was not
aware of a plan to terminate Ammons or to ask Ammons to resign during
Wednesday’s meeting.”

But an Associated Press article written by Gary Fineoutcontains
details that did not appear in the Democrat.

Fineout reported: “Board member Narayan Persaud, who is also
president of the FAMU faculty senate, said it was ‘absolutely not’ true that
board members were planning to vote to oust Ammons. He said a supporter of
Ammons called him hours before the president resigned and suggested the
possibility. Persaud said he told him it was ‘preposterous to think the
trustees’ were talking to one another, in violation of state open government
laws.”

The information in the Fineout article contains red flags
about Persaud. The faculty senate president told Fineout that someone spoke to
him prior to the meeting about a possible board plot to get rid Ammons, but the
Democrat article says Persaud wasn’t aware that anything was being planned
against the university president.

The biggest problem is Persaud’s attempt to speak for the
entire board. He thinks it’s “preposterous” to even entertain the thought that any
FAMU trustee acted dishonestly or broke the Government-in-the-Sunshine Law.

Persaud isn’t with the other 12 trustees 24 hours a day and
can’t claim speak for what they did or didn’t do. The faculty senate president
isn’t part of the circle that is really running the show on the FAMU board. He
is naïve to believe that the trustees who are closet to the Florida Governor’s
Office respect him enough to let him (or any other FAMU faculty member) know
about all the under-the-table scheming that is taking place.

Let Them Know How We Get Down: Anytime. Anyplace.

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